Escaping The Cave: The Toddzilla X-pod

“There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.”  “Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.” -Lippmann. At 35:25: The difference between clever & smart and more on the DIKW pyramid and what happens when citizens ignore corrupt data.  The first 35-minutes:  - Justin Amash and the criticism from the left. - Mueller's fumble and the Democrat's ensuing demand that he star in their 2020 reality show/campaign ad. - To Impeach or not Impeach: just do it or STFU! - Democrats are politically impotent to stop anything Trump does. How does that "protest vote" look now?     More: www.escapingthecave.com Subscribe: iTunes and Google Play     

Technology enables, and social media perpetuates, informational anarchy and prioritizes the cheap appearance of knowledge over fostering knowledge itself.  Also, how the Internet changes cognition and the abandonment of expertise to the holy opinion: "my ignorance is equal to  your knowledge." Also:  -The DIKW pyramid and drowning in data. -The Id on Parade, the natural state of man, and Leviathan.   -What happens when reasonable voices abandon the public square to mindless mobs of roving avatars? -When avatars attack -A classic full-frontal Toddzilla rant salvaged from The Lost Episode about Twitter, and more.     Elias Aboujaode's Virtually You:  https://www.amazon.com/Virtually-You-Dangerous-Powers-Personality/dp/0393340546   Nicholas Carr's The Shallows:  https://www.amazon.com/Shallows-What-Internet-Doing-Brains/dp/0393339750   Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves To Death:  https://www.amazon.com/Amusing-Ourselves-Death-Discourse-Business/dp/014303653X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&

Unsophisticated media consumers and the failure to take personal responsibility for our own intellectual maintenance. The surrender of the individual's intellectual autonomy to the conformist mob. How mobs-cells no longer need to leave the couch and are now free to anonymously molest & terrorize the "other" via Twitter, Facebook, and their phones. Also: Social Media Influencers and how the Media 101 Model applies to them Emerson on independent thought, conformity, and consistency The abandonment of external truth and the path to authoritarianism  Need more Toddzilla? 1) Seek help. 2) Click the links. 3) Gorge on your way to therapy. More episodes/subscribe: My travel archives: www.toddzillaX.com Also visit: www.christophermedia.net Subscribe: iTunes and Google Play

Haidt's elephant and how it relates to our constitutional crisis, rising authoritarianism, and our likely dystopian future. "Evolution didn't end with opposable thumbs." The thin veneer of civilization Self-dehumanization Extremists v. Moderate The Social Media Disease   Also visit: www.christophermedia.net  

Parties, their power-first representatives and constituents, fundamentalist ideologues, extremists, etc. are failing everyone. Government institutions are melting down and the faith of the governed along with it. Hey! What could possibly go wrong?!?     Need more Toddzilla? 1) Seek help. 2) Click the links. You can listen on your way to therapy. More episodes/subscribe: www.escapingthecave.com My travel archives: www.toddzillaX.com Also visit: www.christophermedia.net

Confused as to why your righteous demands aren't being met? Behold!  Narratives, mythology, religion, and how they bind us together The Grand Design & Ideological Religions Making Enemies of Allies Haidt's Elephant Intellectual refinement and allowing yourself (and others) to make mistakes and change your mind External Truth and Reason Authoritarian creep No Hitler references! www.escapingthecave.com https://soundcloud.com/toddzillax   Use as directed.     

Are you wondering why every source of "news" and information sucks? It's because everyone from MSNBC to NPR to FOX to Alex Jones to Social Media "Influencers" operate according to the same for-profit model: drawing eyeballs to their product to sell someone else's. The re-resurrection begins by re-laying the foundation. More on the way.   Need more Toddzilla? 1) Seek help. 2) Click the links. You can listen on your way to therapy. More episodes/subscribe: www.escapingthecave.com My travel archives: www.toddzillaX.com Also visit: www.christophermedia.net